reftable/block: open-code call to `uncompress2()`

The reftable format stores log blocks in a compressed format. Thus,
whenever we want to read such a block we first need to decompress it.
This is done by calling the convenience function `uncompress2()` of the
zlib library, which is a simple wrapper that manages the lifecycle of
the `zstream` structure for us.

While nice for one-off inflation of data, when iterating through reflogs
we will likely end up inflating many such log blocks. This requires us
to reallocate the state of the `zstream` every single time, which adds
up over time. It would thus be great to reuse the `zstream` instead of
discarding it after every inflation.

Open-code the call to `uncompress2()` such that we can start reusing the
`zstream` in the subsequent commit. Note that our open-coded variant is
different from `uncompress2()` in two ways:

  - We do not loop around `inflate()` until we have processed all input.
    As our input is limited by the maximum block size, which is 16MB, we
    should not hit limits of `inflate()`.

  - We use `Z_FINISH` instead of `Z_NO_FLUSH`. Quoting the `inflate()`
    documentation: "inflate() should normally be called until it returns
    Z_STREAM_END or an error. However if all decompression is to be
    performed in a single step (a single call of inflate), the parameter
    flush should be set to Z_FINISH."

    Furthermore, "Z_FINISH also informs inflate to not maintain a
    sliding window if the stream completes, which reduces inflate's
    memory footprint."

Other than that this commit is expected to be functionally equivalent
and does not yet reuse the `zstream`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions